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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 662, 8 March 1869, Page 1

Government Advertisements. TJLES AND EEGULATIONS i for the GOVERNMENT PRIZE FIRING-, NORTH ISLAND, 1869. [Extract from the New Zealand Gazette of the 13th January, 1869.] Colonial Defence Office, Wellington, 11th January, 1869. The following Regulations arc published for general information. T. M. HATJIiTAIN. Regulations for Prize FraiNG in the North Island, for the Year 1869. One-half the money voted by the General Assembly for Prize Firing (viz £500), will be divided amongst the districts named below under the following regulations : Districts. 4. Poverty Bay and Wairoa 5. Napier # * # # * 1. Each district will receive a sum of money to be fired for in proportion to the number of Volunteers, Cadets, and Constabulary that are enrolled, and of Militiamen that are armed on the Ist February, 1869; and Officers commanding are to send to the Defence Office, as soon as possible after that date, Returns showing the number of men they are entitled to reckon under the above heads. 2. All Officers of the Colonial Forces, all persons enrolled in the Militia or Armed Constabulary, and all members of Volunteer or Cadet Corps are eligible to become competitors for the prizes. 3. The Officer commanding each District will fix a day or days, in the months of March or April, for the competitive firing to take place. Where two or more places are named as one district, the senior officer will make the necessary arrange ments for the whole. 4. The firing may take place at one or more places within the district, at the discretion of the Commanding Officer. 5. In each district a prize of £lO, or a Mont Storm carbine of that value, and two prizes of £7 and £5 respectively, will be given to the three competitorswho make the highest scores, not being less than 35. 6. The remainder of the money apportioned to the district, will be divided, according to their score, amongst all those (winners of the prizes included) who make a greater number of marks than 35 at the competitive firing. No competitor, however, is to receive on this account a greater sum than £5 ; but should there be a surplus undistributed in any district, it will be available to complete deficiencies, if any, in other places. 7. Competitors will fire at ranges of 400, 500, and 600 yards (Cadets at 200, 250, and 300 yard?); five shots at each range, without artificial rest, any position. Highest possible score, 60 marks. Size of (the targets, feet; bull's eye, 2 feet; centre, 4 feet. 8. Ties shall be decided as follows: — (1.) By the score made at the longest distance. (2.) If still a tie by the score made at the two longest distances. (3.) If still a tie, then by Wimbledon Regulations, 1866, section 13. 9. The highest scorer above forty marks (not being a Cadet) in each Province will receive the medal for the Province. General Mules to be observed in firing for the General Government Prizes. 10. The long or medium Enfield rifle, the Lancaster rifle, and the breech or muzzle loading carbine, as issued by the General or Provincial Governments, must alone be used. Competitors using the carbine at the 400, 500, and 600 yard ranges, will be allowed one mark at the first range, two marks at the second, and three marks at third range. 11. The minimum pull of the trigger to be six pounds. 12 Ammunition will be provided by the Government. 13. The senior officer on the ground may direct the examination of the arms used by competitors, at any time before, during, or after the firing; and should anv arm be found to have been tampered with, or the pull of trigger to be below the mini mum, the competitor using such arm will be disqualified, and his score disallowed. 14. In the scoring, the value of shots will be—Bull's eye, 4; centre, 3; outer, 2. 15. The firing lor Government Prizes should be superintended, if possible, by a Field Officer; and in the absence of any Field Ollicer, there must be (exclusive of any Medical Officer) at least two Commissioned Officers on the ground. 16. A list, giving each competitor a number only, will be given to the ollicer and marker; another list will be made out witli each competitor's nau:e and corresponding number on it, to be kept hy the senior officer stationed at the spot where the competitors fire from. 17. The senior officer present will appoint one person to call the names of competitors at the place of firing, and another to remain with the mxkw near 'ttw target